SC Cleared Network Engineer - Automation and Operations

6 month contract/50% on site

We're partnering with a leading organisation to recruit an experienced Senior Network Engineer for an exciting contract opportunity. Joining a highly skilled infrastructure team, you'll play a key role in supporting, maintaining, and enhancing critical network services across a large-scale enterprise environment.

This is a hands-on position where you'll be responsible for network operations, troubleshooting complex issues, infrastructure improvements, and driving automation initiatives to improve efficiency, resilience, and service reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain enterprise network infrastructure and services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network incidents and problems.
• Deliver network upgrades, enhancements, and project-based changes.
• Work with cross-functional teams across infrastructure, security, and cloud technologies.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption to improve operational efficiency.
• Contribute to continuous service improvement and operational excellence.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong enterprise network engineering experience.
• Cisco technologies (CCNP level or equivalent).
• Cisco Nexus and UCS environments.
• F5 Load Balancing and DNS.
• Check Point Firewall technologies.
• Strong routing, switching, and network security knowledge.
• Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Knowledge of ITIL-based operational processes.

Desirable

• Experience within Financial Services or other highly regulated environments.
• Azure and/or AWS networking experience.
• Exposure to network automation and Infrastructure as Code best practices.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.